Orwell: 2+2=5
- Director: Raoul Peck
- Writer: Raoul Peck
- Producer: Maiken Baird, Josephine Bland, George Chignell, Erin Edeiken, Johnny Fewings, Alex Gibney, Jessica Grimshaw, Christian Holland, William Horberg, David Levine, Joey Marra, Dan O'Meara, Raoul Peck, Richard Perello, Tom Quinn, Courtney Sexton, Nick Shumaker, Zhang Xin
CGiii Comment
In the late 1940s, George Orwell, increasingly ill with tuberculosis, was living on Jura while working on 1984. His seminal novel paints a dystopian portrait of a man’s secret rebellion against a totalitarian surveillance society. Raoul Peck’s ambitious and wide-ranging documentary weaves an exploration of the book’s ideas with Orwell’s biography, including his childhood in India and involvement in the Spanish Civil War, both of which informed his work. A wealth of archive footage, including clips from adaptations of the novel, highlights how concepts such as doublethink, Big Brother, and newspeak resonate more than ever today.
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Cast & Characters
Damian Lewis (as George Orwell)
George Orwell
George Orwell (as Self - Novelist)
U Win Khine (as Self - Lead Immigration Officer, Myanmar)
Min Aung Hlaing (as Self - Prime Minister of Myanmar)
Augusto Pinochet (as Self - Supreme Head of the Nation)
Ferdinand Marcos (as Self - President of the Philippines)
Yoweri Museveni (as Self - President of Uganda)
Vladimir Putin (as Self - President of Russia)
Viktor Orbán (as Self - Prime Minister of Hungary)
George W. Bush (as Self - 43rd President of the United States)
Colin Powell (as Self - Secretary of State)
Victor Otto (as Self - Father of a Russian Soldier Killed Ukraine)
Ida Blair (as Self - Orwell's Mother)
Richard Blair (as Self - Orwell's Father)
Donald Trump (as Self - 45th President of the United States)
Sidney Powell (as Self - Attorney and Former Prosecutor)
Jordan Klepper (as Self - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Corespondent)
Lawrence O'Donnell (as Self - Host, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell)
Joseph Stalin (as Self - Leader of the Soviet Union)
Nikolai Yezhov (as Self - Executed in 1940)
Vyacheslav Molotov (as Self - Former Prime Minister of the Soviet Union)
Kliment Voroshilov (as Self - Soviet Military Officer and Politician)
Vladimir Lenin (as Self - Leader of the Soviet Union)
Alexander Malchenko (as Self - Executed in 1930)